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The Bear, the hilarious commercial for French TV channel Canal + by agency BETC, was the most awarded TV commercial of the past year according to The Gunn Report which compiles lists of the most-awarded ads worldwide during the previous 12 months.

This year’s report reveals that the top five commercials of 2012 were:

1.Canal+ The Bear (BETC, Paris) which is the most awarded commercial in the 14 year history of The Gunn Report.

2. BGH Silent Air, Dads In Briefs campaign (Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi, Buenos Aires)

3. Doritos Dips, Dip Desperado (AMV BBDO, London)

4. Chipotle, Back To The Start (Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles)

5. John Lewis, The Long Wait (Adam&EveDDB, London)

The most awarded print ads and campaigns were:

1. Samsonite Suitcases, Heaven And Hell (JWT Shanghai) which, bizarrely, tops the table for the second year in a row.

2. Pictionary, Quick Draw Wins campaign (Ogilvy Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur)

3= Coca-Cola, #Cokehands (Ogilvy & Mather, Shanghai)

3= Ministry of Defence Colombia, Rivers of Light (Lowe-SSP3, Bogota)

5= The Sunday Times Rich List, Rich List 2012 (CHI & Partners, London)

5= Volkswagen Park Assist, Nightmare Spots campaign (DDB, Sydney)

The most awarded digital campaigns were:

1, Intel, The Museum of Me (Projector, Tokyo)

2= Google Chrome, OkGo  All Is Not Lost (Hakuhodo, Tokyo)

2= Philips, Obsessed With Sound (Tribal DDB, Amsterdam)

2= US State Department, Slavery Footprint (Muh-Tay-Zik/Hof-fer (San Francisco)

5= American Express, Small Business Gets An Official Day (CP+B, Boulder/Digitas, NY)

5= Chipotle, Back To The Start (Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles)

5= CNN, The CNN Ecosphere (Heimat, Berlin)

5= Skittles, Touch The Rainbow (BBDO, Toronto)

The Gunn Report also has a category for integrated or innovative work which it calls “All Gunns Blazing”. The most awarded work here was:

1 Amex’s “Small Business Gets An Official Day” (see above).

2. National Australia Bank, Break Up (Clemenger BBDO Proximity, Melbourne)

3= Engagement Citoyen, The Return of Dictator Ben Ali (Memac Ogilvy Label, Tunis)

3= Mercedes-Benz F-Cell, The Invisible Drive (Jung von Matt, Hamburg)

5. Troy Public Library, Book Burning Party (Leo Burnett, Detroit)

Most awarded countries in the world:

1. USA
2. UK
3. Australia
4. Japan
5= Argentina
5= Brazil

Most awarded advertisers:

1. VW
2. Google
3. Nike
4. Coca-Cola
5. Mercedes-Benz

Most awarded production companies:

1. MJZ
2. Soixan7e Quin5e (Paris)
3. Rattling Stick (London, Los Angeles)
4= Nexus (London)
4= Primo (Buenos Aires)
4= Propaganda (Tunis)

Most awarded agency:

1. Wieden + Kennedy (Portland, New York)
2. Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi (highest ever ranking)
3. BBH (London) (highest ever ranking)
4. AlmapBBDO (Sao Paulo)
5= Adam&EveDDB (London)
5= Dentsu (Tokyo / Fukuoka)

Most awarded agency in digital:

1. Hakuhodo (Tokyo)
2= AlmapBBDO (Sao Paulo)
2= R/GA (New York)
4= DDB / Tribal DDB (Amstelveen)
4= Party Inc (Tokyo)

Most awarded agency network:

1. BBDO
2. DDB
3. Ogilvy
4. Leo Burnett
5. Y&R (highest ever ranking)

The Gunn Report uses a weighted points system to analyse the winners of the major advertising awards schemes around the world. More details here

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The February issue of CR magazine features a major interview with graphic designer Ken Garland. Plus, we delve into the Heineken advertising archive, profile digital art and generative design studio Field, talk to APFEL and Linder about their collaboration on a major exhibition in Paris for the punk artist, and debate the merits of stock images versus commissioned photography. Plus, a major new book on women in graphic design, the University of California logo row and what it means for design, Paul Belford on a classic Chivas Regal ad and Jeremy Leslie on the latest trends in app design for magazines and more. Buy your copy here.

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This stark concrete house in Spain by Alcolea+Tárrago Arquitectos features richly stained timber shutters that fold back to reveal large glass doors (+ slideshow).

Located in the town of Sesma, Casa MP is home to a family of four, made up of a young couple and their two daughters. It was conceived by Pamplona studio Alcolea+Tárrago Arquitectos as “a monolithic volume that emphasises its archetypal geometry using concrete and stained pinewood.”

The dark timber detailing creates a distinct contrast with the muted grey of the concrete and was added as a reference to local architecture. It frames a series of recessed windows and is also used for doors and furnishings inside the house.

The concrete was formed against timber and its surface shows the rough grain of the wooden boards.

The house is at the peak of the sloping and takes advantage of views of the surrounding fields. This position allows room for a two-car garage to one side, as well as a rear garden where residents can plant vegetables.

The main entrance to the house is through a three-metre-wide terrace that can be screened from the street using a translucent sliding screen.

An open-plan living room and kitchen occupies the entire ground floor to create a space for working and relaxing, while four bedrooms are located upstairs and a multi-purpose room and storage area are in the basement.

Other recently completed houses in Spain include a residence in Alicante with an 18-metre-long balcony and an X-shaped concrete house near Barcelona.

Photography is by Iñaki Bergera.

Here’s a project description from Alcolea+Tárrago Arquitectos:

The commission began in a private competition, in which our office was selected not by a particular project, but by the attitude showed to the clients to build a maximum house with a very small budget on a complicated plot, a very sharp slope. And not least, the involvement and commitment, perhaps beyond any logical reason, to propose successive approximations to the project (up to five preliminary projects and a full executive project with its visa) before the final solution.

Anyway, the program answers common needs of a conventional home for a young couple with two young daughters, including a garage for two cars and a small garden and orchard. It is a monolithic volume that emphasizes its archetypal geometry using concrete and stained pinewood. Any gesture is made to the better orientation and views, and to clear the plot as much as possible for the small garden and orchard to plant some vegetables and fruit trees.

The house, therefore, is set at the highest level of the site. It follows a restrictive regulation on alignment and height. But this also permits to dominate the southern view towards the grain fields and smooth foothills of the River Ebro.

Following similar strategies, the two car garage is separated from the main volume to close the north limit. Between the house and the garage, there is an entrance and patio access three meters wide. Large sliding doors in pine board communicate the garage and garden.

The ground floor of the house is linked to the garden through large windows. A single space includes the living, kitchen and a place for leisure and work. Four bedrooms, two bathrooms and a laundry room are in the upper floor. In the basement there is a multipurpose space, facilities and storage rooms.

The building details in reinforced concrete unify structure, finishing and texture, and control the total budget. The windows have shutters in stained pine board, very common in the folk architecture of the area.

The thermal inertia of the concrete volume as well as an underfloor heating and cooling system using geothermal energy determines a high efficiency in a quite extreme climate, very cold in winter and very hot in summer, without resigning to large windows for a maximum use of natural light. A very small local construction company owned by a family friend and local subcontractors carried out the construction. And explains the delay of the execution process.

Above: site plan – click above for larger image

Above: basement floor plan – click above for larger image

Above: ground floor plan – click above for larger image

Above: first floor plan – click above for larger image

Above: section – click above for larger image

Above: north elevation – click above for larger image

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News: an exhibition of the Design Museum’s permanent collection has opened at the museum in London.

Entitled Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things, the display on the top floor of the Design Museum is divided into six themes or “stories”, with objects from the collection displayed on shelving alongside contextual images and documents.

The Identity & Design section (above) features items that contribute to national identity such as the red K2 Phone box by Giles Gilbert Scott, UK road signage by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert, and the London 2012 logo Wolff Olins.

Taste charts the influence of modernism on British design and includes pieces by Marcel Breuer and Erno Goldfinger, while Why We Collect features readymades from Jasper Morrison’s table made of bicycle handlebars to the Campana Brothers’ Cartoon Chair made of soft toys.

Materials & Process (above) charts the development of plastic technology, Icons charts iterations of the Anglepoise lamp (below) and the final section focusses on Fashion from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Director of the Design Museum Deyan Sudjic said: “Design matters at every level. It is what makes daily life a little better; it is about the big economic changes that the world is going through. It is about the designers and the manufacturers, but it is also about the users. It is a unique way of making sense of the world around us.”

The exhibition was designed by London designer Gitta Gschwendtner and primarily consists of rough, chunky shelving units stained in two colours to highlight the wood grain. “I wanted it to be quite serious, but not too much like an old museum,” Gschwendtner told Dezeen.

The display will be on show until the museum moves to its new home next year in the former Commonwealth Institute building in south London, originally designed by RMJM in the 1960s and currently being redeveloped by John Pawson.

The new venue will showcase the institution’s entire collection, which currently comprises 3000 objects including an AK-47 rifle.

The collection can also be explored via the Design Museum Collection App, for which Dezeen made a series of movies with Deyan Sudjic charting development of design for listening to music, driving, communication, computing and more. Watch all the Design Museum Collection App movies here.

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Dixie is an all-in-one file sharing device that makes it possible for all your gadgets to access files simultaneously via Bluetooth 4.0. Pair trusted devices wirelessly and seamlessly move files from one to the other using Dixie’s simple visual interface which is divided into four quadrants for each gadget. It’s perfect for use with tablets or phones that lack a USB port and great for carrying around and instantly accessing presentations or large music libraries.

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